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Bharati Braille is a semi-unified system for Indian languages that enables blind & visually impaired people to read & write through touch. It is a linearized alpha-syllabary where each Braille character roughly represents an Indian grapheme.
Bharati Braille is based on the 6 dot standard Braille system which was adopted for Indian languages in 1951. Bharati Braille for each individual language (e.g. Hindi, Odia) differs in a few Braille characters to accommodate some language specific phonological peculiarities.
In india it is used for writing Tamil, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Kannada, Punjabi, Assamese, Malayalam, Nepali, Odia, Telugu, & Urdu. Bharati Braille is also adopted with some changes to write Sinhalese in Sri Lanka, Nepali in Nepal and Bengali in Bangladesh.
You can convert any Devanagari text into Bharati Braille using this handy converter for free -
E.g. निकास nikās (exit) ---> ⠝⠊⠅⠜⠎
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Here's is Mr. Manoj Yadav of Delhi winner of "Drishti Essay Competition" reading out from his essay written in Bharati Braille.
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